Perth
Perth names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Perth a city and royal and parliamentary burgh of Scotland
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and royal and parliamentary burgh of Scotland, capital of the county of the same name, on the right bank of the Tay, and at the common junction of railways from Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Inverness. The North and South Inches, two fine public parks, and a fine bridge e bridge of nine arches lead to the suburb of Bridgend. Perth has many handsome public Church and private, a Gothic buildings building partly. St. John's the Episcopal cathedral, the ancient; county buildings, the municipal buildings, station the penitentiary, the largest, and in the railway Perth is celebrated for its bleachfields Scotland. and dye works. It manufactures cotton goods linen,, carriages ginghams, castings, winceys, etc., plaids, table is navigable to the city for The river Perth is generally supposed small to vessels be of. Roman origin. Its earliest known charter is dated 1106; but it was first erected into a royal burgh in are among 1210 by William the Lion. Till the death of James I., 1437, it was the capital of in Scotland. Pop. (1918) 119,300.
Perth THE FIVE ARTICLES OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THE FIVE ARTICLES OF, a measure passed in a General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, convened at Perth by the order of James VI. in 1618. The first of these articles required communicants to receive the elements kneeling; the second permitted the dispensation of the communion privately in case of sickness; the third allowed private , baptism on sufficient cause being shown; the fourth required that children of eight years should be confirmed by the bishop; and the fifth enjoined the observance of Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, and Whitsunday. These articles were ratified by the Estates in 1621, but in the Assembly held at Glasgow in 1638 the assembly of Perth was declared to be unlawful and null, and the Five Articles were formally condemned.
Perth the capital of Western Australia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the capital of Western Australia, occupies a picturesque site on the N. bank of the Swan river, 12 miles from Fremantle, its port, at the mouth of the river. Perth is the headquarters of banking for the colony, and the center of the principal railway lines, including the Great Southern railway to Albany. Pop. (1917) 130,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 the two Perths were of comparable size; today they are not. Scottish Perth, whose textile bleachfields and dye works Collier's celebrated, has lost that industry almost entirely and now counts roughly 47,000 people in the town itself; it also lost its formal city status in the 1975 local government reorganisation and had it restored only in 2012, for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Perth in Western Australia, described as a colonial banking centre of about 130,000, is the capital of a state (since federation in 1901) and its metropolitan area now holds well over two million people, grown on the back of iron ore and gas rather than the Great Southern railway. The account of the Five Articles of Perth of 1618, condemned at Glasgow in 1638, needs no correction at all.
Written for this edition, 2026.